Angela Gheorghiu

Angela Gheorghiu, returns to Prague after 11 long years to once again enchant her enthusiastic fans. She will perform the world's most beautiful operatic arias together with tenor Saimir Pirgu, accompanied by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Nayden Todorov.

Angela Gheorghiu, the world’s most glamorous and gifted opera star (New York Sun), was born in the small Romanian town Adjud. From early childhood it was obvious that she will become a singer, her destiny was music. She attended the Music High School in Bucharest and graduated from the National University of Music Bucharest. She studied with the remarkable music teacher Mia Barbu. Ms. Gheorghiu’s magnificent voice and dazzling stage presence have established her as a unique international opera superstar.

She made her international debut in 1992 at Covent Garden as Mimì in La bohème and in the same year made her debut at the Vienna State Opera. She debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1993, as Mimì. It was at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden that she first sang her much acclaimed Violetta in La Traviata in 1994, when for the first and last time in television and operatic history the BBC cleared out its schedules to broadcast the opera live. Since her Royal Opera debut she has appeared at the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls around the world, her repertory including, among others, Mimì in La bohème, Violetta in La traviata, Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Nedda (Pagliacci), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Tosca, Magda (La rondine), Marguerite in Faust, Micaëla (Carmen), Liù (Turandot), Charlotte in Werther and Adriana Lecouvreur.

February 2022 marked her 30th anniversary with the Royal Opera House in London, where she reprised Tosca to great critical acclaim.
She has shared the stage with such stars as Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Bryn Terfel, Rolando Villazon, Jonas Kaufman and Roberto Allagna.

In the history of opera, Angela Gheorghiu shines as a rare phenomenon: not only a singer/actress with an exceptional vocal technique and profound dramatic and musical intelligence, but also a magnetic communicator who penetrates the hearts and minds of a panoramic spectrum of audiences. She has brought the very highest values of operatic art to a vast worldwide community on an unusually broad scale.

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